Oh Dear

I guess Bam was in Malta too, because i papped his car.

Kit Bag

The morning before leaving for Malta.

Mad Circle

Another old skateboardingis.com video I just uploaded is a very rare Mad Circle section from an old shop-only Giant Distribution video catalogue from 1998. I accidentally on purpose borrowed it when I was working in a skate shop. You know how it is. The rest of the video is whatever but Mad Circle was one of the best 90s companies...hard to beat a line up of stylers including Bobby Puleo, Scott Johnston, Rob Welsh, Karl Watson and a very young Cairo Foster. Cairo's first ever part? Possibly.

Jason Lee

I've been searching through the backups of old versions of my skateboardingis.com website and discovered a bunch of video parts and clips I had posted up back when i first launched it 4 or so years ago. This Jason Lee part is my favourite, it's from a rare Airwalk promo and was possibly some of his last footage before he retired from professional skateboarding. You can't beat the style, the tricks, the lines, the tennis dances and it all being shot on film. My friend Tambini and I used to do the tennis footwork when out drunk dancing back in Southsea, it is heartily recommended.

Handplant

Biebel gave me a reminder the other day...a look through the footage shoebox and hey presto, 1993 and I do a handplant. Surprised myself.





P.S. Wondering about the black borders? I had to rotate the footage 90 degrees, no idea why Pete filmed it on the wonk!

Local Lurkage

La Luna

Bits & Pieces

Chris Miller in Cardiff

This is back from a Planet Earth demo from 1991 at the old metal Rare Unit vert. Well, it was probably quite new back then. Miller kills it as does Buster Halterman. No idea if they went to The Philharmonic afterwards.

Skateboard, I Miss You

Beer From There To Here

Gorm bought me back some beers from Iceland (the place not the pikey frozen food hole). Good stuff.

Panoramic Aldeburgh

A collection of panoramic photos from one of my trips up to Aldeburgh last year, one of my favourite places on the east coast.

A Little Re-Discovery

The other week some friends did a bit of skateboarding re-discovery, they still had the skills. It seemed like they fell back in love with it again a little. Fingers crossed I can skate with these guys again sooner rather than later.

Lakai

Last night is still a bit of a blur. I think the video left a lot of people shell shocked and my OAP brain is still struggling to dissect the skating. A hangover doesn't help either. Oh well.

Todd Bratrud

Todd is an amazing artist and a heavy photo blogger over at The Skateboard Mag and his stuff is always worth keeping an eye on. Today he posted up these amazing photos of Appleyard adding a broken board to a tree of broken boards...thought I should share in case you don't already have his stuff in your bookmarks or RSS feeds.

Music Makes Me Cry

There. I said it. I don't watch the Brit awards on TV, not since that amazing one with thinger from Fleetwood Mac and Sam Fox. I mean, why not go out when it's the best it's ever going to be? Anyway, last year I had heard Prince was going to be playing a few songs so made the effort. At the end of my phone via text message was my friend Rob, likewise breaking the rule of watching the show just to catch the little purple one play live. Prince killed it. We were texting back and forth about how amazing he was. Kind of like we traditionally do with the first night of Big Brother. That's another story/post. I don't remember who had to play/sing after him but that had to be the worst job in the world right after great white shark teeth cleaner. I've loved Prince off and on since Jim leant me some tapes as a kid. Jim tended to do that a lot, open my eyes and ears to amazing music.

I can still watch this now and it raises the hair on my neck and brings a tear to the eye.

School Canvas

Probably the same for all skateboarders at school, what do you do when the teacher is droning on like an adult from a Charlie Brown & Snoopy cartoon? You draw skate logos on your school books! Well, that and piss takes of your school friends, of course.

These are a bunch of mine from 1986-1987.